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In this course, you will learn :
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Create full Motion Graphics Animation Videos in After Effects
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You will learn how to create the 4-Phase walk for any character
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Create Graphics using After Effects Tools
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Use all After Effects Motion Graphics Properties and Methods
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Understand and Apply the most useful Visual Effects for Graphics
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Master the most useful After Effects' Motion Graphics & Visual Effects Techniques
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Import and Animate Illustrator Graphics
Syllabus :
1. Jump Start Into Motion Graphics
- What you will cover in this section
- Download Your Section Footage to Follow Along
- Getting Ready with Footage
- Getting Ready to Animate - Assembling Footage
- Animating Your Graphics
- Completing the Animation with more Properties
- Download the Practice Activity Challenge Footage
- Your Practice Activity and Challenge for this Section
- Your Practice Activity Tutorial
- When your footage links break - Re-linking
2. Graphics from within After Effects
- Intro to Graphics in After Effects
- After Effects Interface a Quick Overview
- How to Create Motion Graphics Animation- A Structured Approach
- Create Your Graphics with After Effects Tools
- Animating Your Graphics
- Practice Activity and Challenge
- Your Practice Activity Tutorial
- Download the Project Files for this Section
- How to Download Animation Lectures
3. The Phone Animation - Your First Complete Motion Graphics Project
- Your Learning take Away from this Section
- Adding Graphics - Shapes and How to Create Them
- The Easy Way to Add Text
- Adding Pen Drawings
- Designing Your Phone
- Animating Your Phone
- Animating the Rest of the Phone
- Tweaking your Phone Animation
- Let's Go Pro - It's easy - Nesting and Precomposing - (Download Enable)
- How about adding Some Visual Effects - (Download Enabled)
- Create your first Video and Upload
- How to Get H.264 if you don't have it
- Practice Activity and Challenge - Section 2
4. The Walking Man Animation - A Simple Approach to Create a Walking Character
- Your Learning Take Away from This Section
- What is inside a Shape Layer
- Let's Create this Walking Guy - Simple Compound Shapes - (Download Enabled)
- Let's Get Walking - Part One
- He is Walking!! Beginner's Style
- Walking with a Scenery
5. The Angry Birds Animation - A Closer Look at Time and Space
- Your Learning Take Away from This Section
- Download the Angry Birds Images to create your project
- How to Import Your Asset and Footage
- Importing from Illustrator - It doesn't matter if you know Illustrator
- Designing Your Scene
- How does Animation Work in Space - The Motion Path in Details
- Animating in Space - Motion Path with the Black Bird - (Download Enabled)
- Animating in Space - Motion Path with the Yellow Bird - (Download Enabled)
- Easing these fellows - Manipulate Time on a Motion Path - (Download Enabled)
- Let's get them to Ease - Application
- Slow them Down - An Intro to the Motion Graph - (Download Enabled)
- Take Control of Easing: How to Manipulate the Graph Editor (Download Enabled)
- How about Speeding In and Speeding Out - (Download Enabled)
- Lets Go Bezier
6. PoPs - A Practical approach to Learning Motion Graphics and Building your Assets
- The Confused Guy - Your Learning Take Away from this Section
- Let's Dig Deeper in Shapes and Add more
- The Circle and The Stroke
- Here is Shadow Effects Explained in Detail
- The Circle and The Fill
- How to Repeat and Repeat and Repeat - The Repeater Concept
- This is How to Animate Your Repeats
- Get this Confused Guy Home - Trimming the Path
- Parametric Shapes and Trim Path
- My Dream House - Wireframes Drawings - You gotta see this!
- Here is How you Trim the Pen and Repeat it
- I couldn't Stop - Another Trim Pen and Repeat
- How to Walk the Confused Guy Home
7. Titles Animation Techniques
- Your Learning Take away from this Section
- Download your First Project Files for this section
- Creating Backgrounds with Solids
- The Concept of Title Animation
- Bringing in Text with Track Mattes
- The Inverse Method
- How to use Luminosity on Text and Mattes
- Using Pre-Comps to Pop Text
- Changing Text Layer Content with Time
- Rolling Text on its own Path
- Text Climbing Mountains
- Texturing your Text
- Another Method to Get Outline Only Text
- Creating a Title Animation to Reverse
- Reversing an Animation First Method
- Your Second Project Files for this section
- Using Compositions as Track Mattes
- Creating a Time Reversible Animation
- Using the Time Reverse Technique
- Layers at an Angle - the easy way
8. Parenting Space Ships
- Download your Space Ships Assets
- How to get the baby Space Ships to follow the Mother Ship
- The Anchor Point Effect
- Children Don't Stay Still
- Even a Comp can become a Child
- The Rowdy Child - Breaking off the Parent
- Your Practice Activity - Adding a Space Dimension
9. Animating Robots - Rigging Concepts and Applications
- What it is all about
- Download the Asset files for this section
- Forward Kinematic Concept
- Animating a Robotic Arm
- Animating a Simple Robot
- How to animate a group of Layers
- Scaling the Robot
- Organizing the Robot Body Parts
- Rigging Becomes a Breeze
- Your Practice Activity - Have lots of Fun
10. Animating with Bezier - Special Morphing
- The Jumping Worm - A Bezier Pen Tool Animated
- They are meeting in the Ring
- The Circle and The Square - They Can Bezier Too!!
- The Boxing Match
- The First Vertex Theory
- How to Damage Your Path
- Homomorphism(ing) into a House
- Morphing Colors
11. Using Vector Graphics from Illustrator (AI)
- What you will learn in this Section
- The Wrong Way to Import your Vector File
- Setting your AI Layers and Groups
- How to Create Shape Layers from Vector Graphics
12. The 4-Phase Walk
- What will be covered in this section
- Animating the Banana Back Foot
- Animating the Front Foot - Completing the Foot Cycle
- Connecting the Feet to the Legs - Now the Banana is Walking
- Animating the Hands - An easier Approach
- Bouncing the Banana for a more Natural Walk
- Taking the Banana for a walk
